My main reason for getting into #3DPrinting was to print the #WarcraftRumble minis. I started with an FDM printer and had so so results. This past weekend we got a resin printer and the results have been much much better. 😍
I still need to do a little sanding on the support "bumps" but I am so impressed with how well it looks.
I need to revise an opinion I've expressed about Creality's basic PLA, mostly back on Reddit.
Turns out there are two kinds not well distinguished.
The more-expensive single-spool packs of PLA are fine.
The two-spool PLA bundles are not.
I thought it was just a bundle discount. I was wrong.
The two-spool is adequate for drafts. But layer adhesion is worse, plate adhesion is worse, and cooling contraction over larger areas is much worse.
It does print, it doesn't clog and it's otherwise adequately behaved - but it is a much weaker filament and has proven inadequate for even lightly stressed test objects.
My opinions about the single-spool stand. But the double-spool combo is not worth the discount.
Got tired of flailing about trying to find the right allen key / hex key in my Ender 3 tool set, so I made some labels. They came out okay (particularly for being so low effort xD ) so enjoy:
After a very long break, I returned to my first hobby: electronics. Made a custom Micro USB cable with low profile boots for our game console project. #HobbyElectronics#OpenSCAD#Creality
As the videos and articles are coming out more, as deliveries are finally made, I have come to the conclusion that the #Prusa XL is an early access printer.
It is literally like buying early access games. "Here is a game at full price. The functionality is limited, and we promise we will release this in the future, but there are many bugs."
Prusa literally finalized the design, did some internal testing, and said to themselves, "Yeah. This is fine. Send it to manufacturing."
What I do like about the XL is that they actually use Gcode. For example the #Qidi and #Creality printers have these built in Gcodes. So even with a vanilla #Klipper install, part of the starting Gcode is hidden begind these macros, unless you completely re-write them.
The XL actually uses the slicer Gcode for stuff like toolchangea. So you are able to change and tweak a lot.
I bought the Creality K1 recently and I just tried it out. So far I'm impressed. It's a big improvement over my modified old Ender Pro 3. It prints fast! I got a Benchy in 17 minutes #3dPrinting#Creality#Benchy
Safety message for those who got a 3D printer for Christmas: Congrats on your new toy, which you should know is also actually a pretty serious industrial robot.
If your printer has been commanded to move or heat up, your flesh does not belong within its bounding box.
Your 3D printer is faster than you, and is capable of burning a 250 degree hole in your hand and filling it with molten plastic before you sense something might be wrong.
This will be another super long-term project, but here's my proper inaugural #CGAPrints post. I'm seeking out 3D printing filaments to match the original 16-colour palette from IBM's Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), so I can eventually make some pretty #retrogaming art.
This is dark red, represented by eSUN's Fire Engine Red PLA, and light blue, which is Tecor Blue-Grey PLA+. These choices may change as I find and test more colours, but we'll see - I have more coming this week! #3dprinting
Hey, has anyone here tried #Creality's Ender PLA, in yellow specifically? I'm looking for a slightly pale shade of yellow PLA, and this product photo makes it look like a potential good fit for my project. #3dprinting
I've not used the specific color, but I did buy both the PLA and Hyper PLA when I bought my #Creality#K1.
I really enjoyed both filaments and got great flow and results from both. The Hyper PLA tends to almost have a milky look and feel with a bit of translucency. While the standard PLA is the same as other PLAs that I've printed.
Der neue Bauteilelüfter und die Luftzufuhr (die man erstmal drucken musste) sind deutlich besser, als der Standard Lüfter von Creality.
Der Lüfter ist leise (was aber nicht hilft, weil der Kühler für den Extruder das Problemkind für den Lärm ist) und der Luftstrom ist erheblich stärker.
Ich werde die Tage dann das Spider Hotend anbringen, was andere Nozzles benötigt. Mit den Brozzl war ich ja recht zufrieden, aber von denen gibt es nichts für den Spider.
So I've been in the 3D printing game for years and have been designing in Blender and SketchUp all my life, and I really wanted to try designing a print-in-place model.
So I thought of this idea! A tri-pod that also serves as a grip for your phone or camera. This is completely print-in-place, and you can just take it off the build plate.
The tolerances are fune tuned and really work well without having large spaces for wiggling or movement in the hinges.
Overall, I just loved the #CAD challenge, and printing on my #Creality#K1 allowed me to do rapid testing
Months ago, I saw youtubers insisting that Creality was going to start honoring open source license terms soon after actually shipping the K1 and K1 Max products to the general market. Did that ever actually happen? #3DPrinting#openSource
They took a month or so to actually post the firmware and give us rpot access to the printer. Before that, you basically had to use #CrealityPrint and their config, where they, for example, got the input shaping wrong.
They then posted the firmware, and you could easily get #Mainsail and #Fluidd. Then it happened that nozzles were crasging into beds, and they removed the firmware.
I first K1 had a problem. I rooted it, but something was wrong. So I swapped it for a new one with the supplier. Now that firmware isn't available anymore. So I had mainsail and Klipper on my first K1, but not on my second one. They are taking their sweet time to release it now as well.
So, nothing new, actually. Like the printer. Haven't had a failed print, and the quality is amazing, but the software side sucks.
That's the problem. The #Creality#K1 stock doesn't run #Klipper as we all know and love it. They run #CrealityOS. So naturally, it has no documentation, and you have no Idee what macros exist or what you can do with #Gcode.
Wirh the rooted verion, you can use #Mainsail and #Fluids, but naturally, the updates are broken, and you are dependent on Creality. But at least I have access to Klipper Macros and can also make my own. I can also correct the mistakes they made with the config.
@koz has the Qidi, and did have a better experience than me initially, but did have to change more in the Klipper config.
I printed my custom glow in the dark and black dual color filament by printing an 1.75 mm spiral, changing color during print. Then printed Snorlax with it.
My 3D printer hasn't even shipped yet and I already have a queue of prints I want to do and am trying to figure out how to set up an OctoPi with a webcam to handle remote management of the thing 😅